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16 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
In honor of Beethoven's 250th birthday & with a nod to Peanuts historian & Charles Schulz expert @LukeEpplin, here are some relevant strips starring, of course, Schroeder. Beethoven's birthday was an idée fixe in the strip. Let's start with my favorite:
An early example -- maybe the first? -- from 1953 (I think).
This particular year it fell on a Sunday.
Many years Beethoven's birthday was folded into the Lucy-Schroeder unrequited love narrative.
This always makes me laugh out loud.

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Happy 90th birthday to the greatest of them all -- @sonnyrollins. I have no bigger hero in or out of jazz. In his honor here's a playlist of 25 brilliant live performances that span nearly 50 years, from 1957-2006.
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So, it took me 55 years to write my first book but about six months to write the second. I'm proud to say that "Destiny: 100 Years of Music, Magic, and Community at Orchestra Hall in Detroit" will be published in October by @DetroitSymphony
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